Bottle-opener.



C. S. BROWN.

BOTTLE OPENER.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 8. I916.

ATTOR N EY Patented 4t, 1917.

A erars arrrr anion QALVIN s. BROWN, 015 TEEZNTQN. NEW JERSEY.

BOTTLE-GPENER.

Application filed April 8, 1916.

To all whom it may concern."

Be it known that I, CALVIN S. BROWN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Trenton, in the county of Mercer and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bottle-Openers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to bottle openers.

One object is to provide a means turnable to extract a cork; to provide relatively movable members on said means to fit different sized bottles to enable more universal use of the means or device; to provide a handle to serve as a lever to operate the device and to normally contain said means, and to provide the handle in the form of a frame having one end projecting beyond the other end and terminating in a lifter or decapper.

Additional objects will appear as the description of the device progresses hereinafter and is considered in connection with accompanying drawings .illustrating one preferred embodiment, and wherein Figure 1 is a view mostly in vertical section showing the device associated with a fragment of a bottle and its closure cork;

Fig. 2 is a view mostly in side elevation, showing the device associated with a fragment of a bottle and a cap therefor, and

Fig. 3 is a top or plan view of the device.

Referring specifically to the drawings, a substantially rectangular frame is provided made from a single strip of metal and having spaced parallel side bars 4. The ends of the strips from which the handle is made are secured together, for instance by means of a rivet at 5 and one end projects beyond the rivet as at 6 and 7 to provide upper and lower hooks to coiiperate with a crimped closure cap 8 of a bottle 9, as shown in Fig.

2 to serve as a cap remover or decapper.

Spanning the'bars 4 and mounted therein is a bolt or pivot member 10 on which a bracket 11 in the form of a yoke is pivoted.

Also pivotally mounted on the rivet 10 is an extractor 12 in the form of a screw. The

extractor 12 extends through the bracket 11,

through a head 13 and through a washer 1a disposed intermediate the bracket and head to prevent undue friction therebetween on movement of the head which turns relatively to the bracket. Pivoted to the head 13 as at '15 for relative lateral movement are support members 16 having their lower ends con- 5 caved as at 17 to provide hooks to engage a bottle neck 18 at its upper edge. In

Specification of Letters Patent.

Fatented et. a, tort. Serial No. 89,963.

Fig. 1 a cork is shown as a closure for the bottle neck 18 at 19.

Normally the device is in compact form as best seen in Figs. 2 and 3 and the cork extracting mechanism involving the parts 10 to 16 inclusive, is hotsed between the side bars 4.

To use the article as a decapper, the hook 7 is engaged with the cap 8 beneath the same and the hook 6 engages with the cap from above. The article is then operated as a lever, and upwardly, in the usual way, moving the cap with it and from the neck 9.

Side arms or lugs of the bracket 11 tend to move away from each other and in this way frictionally engage the inner faces of the sides 4- and maintain the extracting mechanism effectively housed between the sides 1. However, when a cork is to be extracted, this mechanism is moved from the pivot 10 to a position at right angles to the handle or in other words to the position of Fig. 1. The screw 12 is then brought into engagement with the cork 19 and when it penetrates the same to the proper extent. the parts 16 at their hooks adjacent concavities 17 engage the upper edge of the bottle neck 18. The handle 4 is manually operated or turned as a lever to force the screw 12 into the cork and the supports 16 against the top of neck 18. The supports 16 limit the extent of penetration of a screw into the bottle so that after it has been inserted to its limit, the cork 19 will ride upwardly on the screw and as a result be extracted thereby. It is understood that the head 13 turns on the screw 12 or that the handle and bracket 11 turn relatively to the head, with the washer 11 disposed between the bracket and the head.

Since merely the preferred embodiment has been illustrated and described, it is to be understood that changes in the details of construction may be resorted to within the spirit and scope of appended claims.

I claim:

1. A bottle opener having a handle, a transverse member carried thereby, a bracket pivoted to said member, an extractor plvoted to said member and extending through said bracket, a head through which said extractor passes and independently of which it turns, a washer through which the extractor passes disposed intermediate the head andbracket, and support members pivoted to said head for'movement relatively to each other and to ti t ex ractor to engage an object to sup port the extractor and limit its extent of insertion to the object.

2. A bottle opener having a handle of rectangular form, a transverse member carried therein, 7 a substantially U-shaped bracketpivoted to said member by its parallel portion, an extractor pivoted to said member and extending through said bracket, a head through which said extractor passes disposed intermediate the head and bracket, the parallel portion of said bracket having frictional engagement With the inner faces of the sides of said frame to maintain the ex- Q93! 9: this patent; met be obtained for tracting mechanism efi'ectively housed between the sides of said frame, and supporting members pivoted to said head for movement relatively to each other and to the extractor' to engage an object to support the extractor and limit its extent of insertion in the object.

I11 testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CALVIN S; BROWN. Witnesses GEORGE A. EBB, CLARENCE LANDSPARGER.

Washington, D. 0. 

